The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-04-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK

N6W0 VI IdG VILLA
John G. SAKE, the poet, died at Alban
New York, March 31st.
The Sanderson steel works of Syracus
New York, burned last Monday.
The estimated damage to the city {
Mandan, occasioned by the recent foot
is $4,000.
An electrically lighted train, the fir.
in the United States, was run betwee
Boston and New York Wednesday nigh
Paul E. Tulane, philanthropist an
founder of the Tulane university at Ne,
Orleans, died last Monday, at the age q
81.
Eighty-tive persons lost their lives b,
an explosion in colliery at Sydney OF
the 26th ult. Their bodies have beel
recovered.
Little Eddie Annis, of Fargo, aged ii
accidentally shot his sister, aged 10 years
with 22-calibre pistol, the ball entering
the left side of her head.
James Lee, of Eureka, New. fatal,
shot his wife five times last Friday, be
cause she had made application for {
divorce. Lee was arrested and jailed.
Authentic information has been received
from St. Petersburg that fresh attempts
were made upon the czar's life at Cats
china palace Wednesday. The czar was
not injured.
The president has signed the commits
slons of the interstate commerce commits
sioners. but they will be held at the white
house and delivered to the new appointees
upon their arrival
Twenty-Five thousand dollars worth of
gamblers utensils were burned at the
police headquarters in New York recent
ly that had been captured during raids of
gambling houses in the past two years.
Mrs. Joseph Mattson murdered her lit
tie girl one year old by severing her jugu-
lar vein with pair of sheep shears, and
took her own life in the same manner at
New York Mill, Mimi There is no So
luton to the mystery.
Brig. Gen. Wilcox, commanding the
department of the Missouri, will be placed
on the retired list April 10Th. The proba-
bilities are that Col. Wesley Merritt, su-
perintendent of the military academy,
will succeed Gen. Wilcox.
The large shoe manufacturing establish
ment of Pingree & Smith. Of Detroit, was
totally destroyed by fire Wednesday night,
The loss is estimated at 1926, 1000. Seven
hundred and twenty-five employees are
thrown out of employment.
Trotter, the colored gentleman who was
recently appointed register of deeds for
the District of Columbia by the president,
and whom the senate was not inclined to
confirm for time, is reported danger
ously ill in Washington. His recovery is
said to be doubtful.
James Hogan, of New York, a driver
If an ice wagon, nearly killed his wife
with hatchet and then threw himself
'ut of threc-story window, dying in
;tantly. The couple had lost their sixth
child, and both were regarded as partially
insane in consequence
Not long since at Hsia Shib Chen,
China, twenty miles northwest of Hangc-
'owo, over 800 tramps appeared at the
'illage and greatly irritated the inhabi-
ants. The villagers lnveigled the whole |
'ody into temple, and during the night |
ct fire to it. Only forty occupants of
he building escaped.
Last Friday night Dora Bennett, a
oung married woman who lives with her
ather near Columbiana, Ohio, was alb
ucted by three men. She had gone into
he yard after dark for some reason, where,
is said, she was overpowered, placed in
buggy and taken away. She was shorn
her hair, disrobed, and then released.
The president has appointed Oscar S.
traus, New York, to be envoy extraordi-
airy and minister plenipotentiary of the
'nited States to Turkey, vice S. S. Cox.
,signcd. Oscar s. Straus, the newly ap-
ointed minister to Turkey, is prominent
Iew York importer. He was president
the Cleveland Hendricks business mems
ub of 1884.
A special from Rio Grande City, Texas,
ys: Corporal Boyer and another soldier
ere approached by four Mexicans on the
,vernment reservation of Fort Rlnggold
l the evening of the Goth. One Mexi-
IN opened fire, shooting Boyer through
e heart. The other soldier hastily re-
eated. Three Mexicans were arrested
at night on suspicion. The surviving
ldier declares himself able to identity
e assassins.
A wholesale merchant OF st. Peters {
lrg, reported to be worth million dol
rs, has been shot and killed by man to
bem he refused to give $4,000 rubles